Web apps optimized for mobile devices may now count on specific, advanced functions offered by a cross synergy commitment between new W3 specifications, browsers vendors and hardware producer: I’m talking about HTML5, low-level events implementation for touchable surfaces. This gives designers huge opportunities to create new products based on web technologies, often replicating native app [...]
Mobile web application libraries are dividing in two main groups: lightweight libraries and complex and (often heavy) application framework with extended UI support. Introduction A good point of balance is iUI – a web UI framework for mobile devices. It offers a really basic, but very functional, navigation system between pages (the classic left-to-right and [...]
These days I had the opportunity to test PhoneGap, an open source framework for creating native mobile apps with web standards. So, first things came to mind when you think about HTML5, is that even if mobile browsers are very fast to implement new features, you cannot truly count on “standards” but on “drafts”. The [...]
Quick demo (iPad only) E’ vero che lo schermo del tablet firmato Apple è piuttosto ampio e può sembrare superfluo, in certi casi, predisporre una versione dedicata del layout della vostra applicazione web.
Iphone-like drag&drop solution
Jakob Nielsen non rimane mai indietro coi tempi, ed ecco che tira fuori dal cappello magico una ricerca riguardante ciò che possiamo definire la moda del momento: iPhone (e iPad). Nello specifico è emerso che la maggior parte di utenti che utilizzano tale dispositivo ha l’abitudine di scaricare un gran numero di applicazioni fermandosi poi [...]